Samsung to make first ever smartphone chip with 4GB of RAM

Samsung Electronics has announced that it has developed the first 8Gb low-power double data rate 4 (LPDDR4) mobile DRAM. This chip can transmit 3.2Gbps over each of their electric connection, which is twice that of today’s DDR3 and also consumes 40 percent less power.

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Quotes for the Week: Walter Percy Chrysler (1875 - 1940)

Walter Chrysler was an American automotive executive and the founder of Chrysler Corporation. Chrysler went from being a machinist and railroad mechanic to building one of the biggest automobile companies in the world.

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Google is the most talked about company of the year 2013

Statistics from Dow Jones has revealed that Google is the most talked about company of the year 2013 after overtaking Apple which moved from first place last year to second place this year.

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Inventor of AK-47 assault rifle dies

The inventor of the most popular assault rifle has passed on after being in the intensive care in Izhevsk since November 17. Mikhail Kalashnikov’s invention has been credited for more deaths of human beings than any other weapon.

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Quotes for the Week: Pythagoras (570BC – 495BC)

Pythagoras was a Greek philosopher, mathematician and scientist. Pythagoras is popular for Pythagoras theorem in Mathematics. Yes, the one inside mathematical sets which we used mostly in secondary school and some are presently using.

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WhatsApp now has over 400 million monthly active users

In the mobile messaging battle which we can say WhatsApp is leading, WhatsApp has further given data supporting its leadership in mobile messaging. WhatsApp has revealed that it now has over 400 million active users per month.

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Quotes for the Week: Aristotle (384BC – 322BC)

Aristotle is one of the fathers of philosophy and contributed to so many fields including science while he was alive. He had writings in many subjects which include physics, metaphysics, poetry, music, logic, politics, etc.

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What will Airtel gain from this move?

Over the past week, Airtel Nigeria sent a text message to its users notifying them that its blackberry data subscription will stop working on phones that are not blackberry from the 3rd of December onwards.

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Apple agrees deal to bring iPhones to China Mobile

Reports from the Wall Street Journal have indicated that Apple has concluded a deal with China Mobile to bring iPhone 5S and 5C to the world’s largest telecommunications company for the first time.

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Nokia in the last decade, where are they now?

To most things in life, the rule of survival of the fittest applies to make competition and adaptation possible among people and even animals. Like Charles Darwin said, the strongest animal is not the one that survives, but the one that can adapt to changes better.

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Future: Amazon to use drones for delivery

Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos has revealed that the largest online retailer in the world is testing unmanned drones that would be used to deliver light products in a short period of time to customers.

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Quotes for the Week: Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777 - 1855)

Friedrich Gauss was a German mathematician, astronomer and physicist who contributed a great deal to the field of science. He was popular for Gauss law which gave the relationship between flux through a closed surface and the enclosed source.

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What balances an airplane in the air?

Travelling by air is currently the fastest form of transportation. Of course, like other forms of transportation, there have been improvements in speed, luxury, and safety of airplanes over the years. One question you may have forgotten to ponder though is how does an airplane attain balance in the air like a bird with two wings?

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Tight battle: Microsoft also sells a million units of Xbox One in a day!

Microsoft’s game console, Xbox One went on sale on the 22nd of November in 13 countries and Microsoft has revealed that the console has sold over 1 million units in the 13 markets. This is a week after its big rival Sony announced that PS4 hit over a million sales in its first day in the North American market.

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Quotes for the Week: Archimedes (287 – 212BC)

Archimedes was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. He is popularly known for his work on the Archimedes’ principle, Archimedes’ screw, hydrostatics, levers and infinitesimals.

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What the most important component of a smartphone does

Over the past few years, mobile phone usage has been gradually moving from feature phones to smartphones and it is no surprise that smartphones now have more sales than feature phones worldwide.

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Instagram now on Windows Phone

After a year and eight months that Instagram debuted on Android, the photo sharing app is now available on the Windows Phone Store for users on the Windows Phone platform.

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Yahoo to encrypt all user data by 2014 – CEO

Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer has revealed in a blog post on the official Yahoo Tumblr page that the company will extend its high security layer to all its products to continue to secure information of users from spying eyes and to consolidate users’ trust.

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Interesting Facts you need to know about Android

Today, it is more difficult not to know android than it is to know the most popular operating system in the smartphone world. Google has brought the operating system a long way to make it the market leader in a very tight market which has surpassed the feature phones.

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Sony sells more than a million PlayStation 4s in one day!

Sony has announced that its latest gaming console which was recently released in North America, PlayStation 4 had more than 1 million sales in its first 24 hours on the market after it was released into the market on the 15th of November.

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Quotes for the Week: James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879)

James C. Maxwell was a Scottish mathematical physicist who lived in the 19th century and rocked the world of physics in a special way that will never be forgotten in the history of science and physics especially.

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Facebook Page or Group? Different purposes...

Undoubtedly, Facebook is now the biggest social media site around and the ultimate place to meet people you care about online. Apart from interpersonal activities on the social site, Facebook has also made it possible for people with the same interests to discuss and receive information about their interests.

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Android increases market share as Lenovo displaces LG

New data from analytics company, Gartner Inc., has revealed that mobile phones sales in the third quarter of 2013 increased to a figure of 455.6 million units which is a 5.7% increase from the 431 million units in the same period last year.

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Snapchat rejects Facebook’s $3bn offer

According to reports from the Wall Street Journal, growing messaging service, Snapchat has spurned a $3 billion acquisition offer from the biggest social media site, Facebook.

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Want an internet library? Try this social site...

Social media sites are known for connecting people, but over the years, it cannot be argued that a load of information has been passed through the popular social media sites. Social media sites take a chunk of the time people use online which makes it a very important part of the internet experience. People now spend 20% of the time online on social media sites according to Nielsen at the end of 2012. Experian Marketing Services put the value at 27% in April.

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